Ultrastructural changes in red blood cells in aortic dissection patients under extracorporeal circulation: Atomic force microscopy study.

CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates that ultrastructural morphological damage occurs to red blood cells membranes due to extracorporeal circulation in aortic dissection patients. In addition, we provided a new parameter (Ra and Rq) to evaluate red blood cell sublethal trauma. PMID: 29976123 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The International Journal of Artificial Organs - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Int J Artif Organs Source Type: research